Woman Asks to Be Jailed to Escape Drug-Addicted Girlfriend

PATHUM THANI A 40-year-old woman arrived at a police station in Pathum Thani province yesterday with a tablet of amphetamine and asked to be jailed in order to flee her drug-addicted girlfriend, police say.

According to officers at Pratunam Chulalongkorn Police Station, Tassanee Jintanakarnwilai said she had been had been dating a 34-year-old woman named Yui who regularly took amphetamines and often coereced her into taking the pills as well.

“Two days ago, my girlfriend and her friends forced me to take drug. I said no. But they beat me and I complied,” Tassanee told police yesterday. “Then I made an escape.”

She told police officers she would rather live in prison, where she would be fed daily and be protected from her girlfriend.